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A comment on LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group. Parent comment

Re:LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of ... by vardump on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:46AM (#18092595)
> You probably shouldn't be. All this "fanboying" annoys the hell out of people because faboys are constantly trying to sell linux as the solution to all problems ...

This is true for nearly anything imaginable, not just Linux.

> The community alone is enough reason to avoid linux.

If you selectively pick the worst of any given (tech related) community, you'd probably be using nothing.

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Re:LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:51AM (#18092615)
> This is true for nearly anything imaginable, not just Linux.

Yes, it is, but that doesn't mean you should be doing it if you actually care about linux.

> If you selectively pick the worst of any given (tech related) community, you'd probably be using nothing.

I'm not selectively picking anything. This is the part of the community I am constantly exposed to because it is the part that evangelizes.

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Re:LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of ... by inetknght on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:37AM (#18093200)
> I'm not selectively picking anything.

That's definitely why you're hanging out on a website built for armchair intellectuals. There's definitely no bias on the selection of people who visit and comment here. /s

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Re:LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of ... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:41AM (#18093238)
You're making the assumption I was referring only to encounters on HN.
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